Death Climbs a Tree, St. Martin's Minotaur, 2005;
Worldwide, 2008.
Available as a Minotaur ebook.
Reviews

Adult New Reader books

As my first contribution to literacy (before I started tutoring an adult learner in 1999), I
wrote sixteen
little books for adults who read at the first- and second-grade level. Very short and
easy
to read, these
illustrated books appeal to the interests of adults, not children. Some of them are
mysteries, including my
first quilting mystery, Dear Mary Ellen. In 1999 I read about how
Dear Mary
Ellen was used in an ESOL GED class of Latino students learning to read
mysteries. I was
delighted to find my little story used between Langston Hughes and Guy de
Maupassant, and getting
raves from the students. In 1990 and 1991 they were published as the Kaleidoscope
Collection of Stories
by New Readers Press, the publishing division of Laubach Literacy International, and
are still used in
many literacy programs.